Yuri A. Kabaenkov

Yuri A. Kabaenkov is the online identify of a person who, some have alleged is an evil genius, a notorius hacker and spammer, and possibly an unfriendly AI.

Kabaenkov's first usenet posting was to comp.databases.postgresql.general on November 24, 2001. He appeared briefly on bugtraq on May 18, 2002; is named as the author of apache mod_traf_thief, an apache module to skim a percentage of traffic from a web server which was published some time in 2003 and is available for download at [1].

Allegations of spam

On November 13, 2002, postings to news.admin.net-abuse.email alleged that Yuri's site, antispamcenter.org was a front for an email harvesting operation, due to suspicious information listed on the whois record for the domain: a bogus NYC address.

artofit.com is now listed in SPEWS as a spam gang.

Contact info

Kabaenkov is rumoured to reside in Russia.

• mailto:hellman@artofit.com, mailto:sec@artofit.com
• http://search.cpan.org/~hellman/

External links

• http://web.god.net.ru/projects/mod_traf_thief/
• http://www.google.com/search?q=mod_traf_thief
• http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4hk5tuk1hueguqtbeofnkk36112cs5orma%404ax.com
• http://groups.google.com/groups?q=antispamcenter.org+artofit.com